Center for urban and regional planning for postgraduate studies at University of Baghdad in cooperation with the ministry of construction, housing, municipalities and public works heed a scientific symposium entitled (future housing and housing needs in the Iraqi city) that addressed the reality and negative effects of housing crisis on our society from the operational, administrative, economic, social, health, psychological, security and environmental aspects. The participants discussed modernization of housing policy in Iraq in 2017 and rehabilitation of informal housing communities according to urban and rural housing standards. The symposium was attended by the minister of reconstruction and housing Dr. Ann Nafie Awsi, representative of University of Baghdad Prof. Dr. Osama Fadel, Deputy Minister the engineer Estabrak Ibrahim al-Shawk, dean of the center and a number of researchers and specialists in housing.